Since its release, this app has been updated through several versions. Together, they created what was the first full color graphics editor that combined image and text. On the downside, they cannot achieve the same photo realism as raster files.ĬorelDRAW was designed by two software engineers: Michel Bouillon and Pat Beirne. Thus, they are ideal for graphics that need to be device-independent. The advantages of this technique include smaller file sizes, and the capacity to transform the drawing through rotations, translations, scaling, mirroring and other vector operations, without image degradation. Vector graphics use vectors to represent images in computer graphics. and renamed Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) since Corel Draw 3.0.ĬorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor created by Corel Co. The file format was reengineered by Corel Co. in 1989, which is used for vector graphic drawings.
The CDR file extension refers to a file format developed by Corel Co.
